A source first told Yahoo Finance that Softbank would not follow through with the bailout, which was designed late last year to help the struggling office space startup. The deadline for the tender offer was April 1. However, Softbank said remains committed to providing up to $5.45 billion in debt to WeWork to help boost its working capital, the source says.

Neumann had been prepared to haul in $1 billion by tendering a slug of his stock to Softbank. That drew the ire of WeWork employees (and other investors) many of which are sitting on worthless stock options because of the botched leadership of Neumann.

Since October 2019, SoftBank and the SoftBank Vision Fund have committed more than $14.25 billion to WeWork to date, including $5.45 billion.

The Wall Street Journal first reported several weeks ago Softbank may not go ahead with the tender offer.